phonograph : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: phonograph	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for phonograph
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phonograph n machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically Synonym(s): record player, phonograph
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phonograph \Pho"no*graph\, n. [Phono- + -graph.] 1. A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography. 2. (Physics) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.